Motherwell FC - A Thread For All Seasons

[camer0n_mcd]

4 minutes ago, capt_oats said:

Highly rated young right back from Everton you say? #WelcomeNathan

He's a bit of a permacrock so he'd fit into our recruitment model.

[Vietnam91]

8 minutes ago, camer0n_mcd said:

He's a bit of a permacrock so he'd fit into our recruitment model.

Could we afford all the steak, raw eggs and and Guinness?

[capt_oats]

32 minutes ago, camer0n_mcd said:

He's a bit of a permacrock so he'd fit into our recruitment model.

Tbf, he's currently injured (which was the joke ).

[Desp]

5 hours ago, Desp said:

Hearing that a young Everton lad is coming back up the road on the bus with us.

Highly-rated right-back.

I was only kidding, lads. I have no inside info, unlike @Busta Nut.

[Busta Nut]

6 minutes ago, Desp said:

I was only kidding, lads. I have no inside info, unlike @Busta Nut.

[Busta Nut]

6 minutes ago, Desp said:

I was only kidding, lads. I have no inside info, unlike @Busta Nut.

[well fan for life]

Can't wait to hear who else was injured in this nonsense bounce game. We'll bodge a starting 11 together for Saturday but the bench is going to be some laugh.

[Cloontang]

3 hours ago, capt_oats said:

Highly rated young right back from Everton you say? #WelcomeNathan

Nathan Fatterson. SOD is far superior imo.

We have a great track record with Everton loanees as Jutkiewicz and Ruddy served as well and to a lesser extent Conor Grant. 

[rowsdower]

Not sure if our delicate squad needs someone from the Sean Dyche school of football.

Is he coming to batter Liam Gordon, or to join forces with him to finish the job? It will be like Hogan joining the NWO all over again.

[capt_oats]

Updated Well Society board election candidate video.

[crazylegsjoe_mfc]

8 hours ago, rowsdower said:

Not sure if our delicate squad needs someone from the Sean Dyche school of football.

Is he coming to batter Liam Gordon, or to join forces with him to finish the job? It will be like Hogan joining the NWO all over again.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68687045

It depends if he's toughened up since this incident with Dyche.

[crazylegsjoe_mfc]

9 hours ago, Cloontang said:

Nathan Fatterson. SOD is far superior imo.

We have a great track record with Everton loanees as Jutkiewicz and Ruddy served as well and to a lesser extent Conor Grant. 

Russell Griffiths and, technically, John Spencer too.

[Desp]

10 hours ago, Cloontang said:

We have a great track record with Everton loanees as Jutkiewicz and Ruddy served as well and to a lesser extent Conor Grant. 

"to a lesser extent" doing some seriously heavy lifting here!

[CoF]

Plan A: Hunners of injuries throughout the season, causing constant disruption.

Plan B: Injure everyone at the start of the season to get it out the way. 

 

['WellDel]

7 minutes ago, CoF said:

Plan A: Hunners of injuries throughout the season, causing constant disruption.

Plan B: Injure everyone at the start of the season to get it out the way. 

 

Kettlewell has often been accused of over thinking things in the past, I fear he's gone a step to far in simplifying them here.

[capt_oats]

23 hours ago, Busta Nut said:

Listened to the boys on the Terrace podcast hammer our team/squad/club.

Didn't disagree tbh.

I listened to it as well and while I didn't disagree that we looked blunt it also felt a bit confirmation bias-y from Fowler in particular in so much as he's decided we're shite and this was proof positive. I mean, we may well end up being trash this season but given the circumstances I (genuinely) don't think our pre-season and the County game is a fair reflection of the squad in general.

It had a similar energy to Sked speaking to @thisGRAEME in one of the early season previews where he was incredulous at Graeme's suggestion we could finish top 6 with a fair headwind and things going our way (Narrator: Motherwell finished Top 6 that season).

I think the beef I had was that there was no real context given or considered (again, mostly from Fowler).

I get that they're Hearts and Killie fans respectively and we've been anything but convincing (although we're still technically unbeaten through pre-season into the opening fixture) but we've got half a dozen players out injured and another pile in various states of rehab coming back from injury which is why as many of the new signings were on the bench or in the case of Stuparević he didn't just disappear from the squad (as implied) - he's injured.

Also, the suggestion that the "takeover" stuff had distracted the football department was an odd take given the football department seems to have been the one area of the club that has been functioning as normal in terms of getting bodies in.

Edited August 7 by capt_oats

[MP_MFC]

3 minutes ago, capt_oats said:

I listened to it as well and while I didn't disagree that we looked blunt it also felt a bit confirmation bias-y from Fowler in particular in so much as he's decided we're shite and this was proof positive. I mean, we may well end up being trash this season but given the circumstances I (genuinely) don't think our pre-season and the County game is a fair reflection of the squad in general.

It had a similar energy to Sked speaking to @thisGRAEME in one of the early season previews where he was incredulous at Graeme's suggestion we could finish top 6 with a fair headwind and things going our way (Narrator: Motherwell finished Top 6 that season).

I think the beef I had was that there was no real context given or considered (again, mostly from Fowler).

I get that they're Hearts and Killie fans respectively and we've been anything but convincing (although we're still technically unbeaten through pre-season into the opening fixture) but we've got half a dozen players out injured and another pile in various states of rehab coming back from injury which is why as many of the new signings were on the bench or in the case of Stuparević he didn't just disappear from the squad (as implied) - he's injured.

Also, the suggestion that the "takeover" stuff had distracted the football department was an odd take given the football department seems to have been the one area of the club that has been functioning as normal in terms of getting bodies in.

That's basically my take from listening to that and pretty much any output that either of the two Craig's have been involved in with Motherwell over the years, they think we're shite and by god, they'll let us know about it at any opportunity.

Jealousy is a wicked thing when you support teams who have been down to the Championship many more times than us since we took our place at the top table all those years ago.

[Vietnam91]

Hinted at this before but I wonder how much of the Bair war-chest is going to be dipped into chasing a need to make this team competitive in the league.

Maybe I'm wrong, but paying 400k ish for Balmer and Stama plus all the others recruited, many would have thought our business was complete bar a loan or two and if a bargain was available (not that there's much of that any more with scouting software). That would have left the lion's share in the "prudent" column.

I suppose I'm just fearful that this could be frittered away out of necessity rather than us picking and choosing which how it was looking only a month ago.

Through a mixture of bad luck but also chasing the made of glass but good footballer guys makes me really fearful that Saturday could be painful.

[Busta Nut]

1 hour ago, capt_oats said:

I listened to it as well and while I didn't disagree that we looked blunt it also felt a bit confirmation bias-y from Fowler in particular in so much as he's decided we're shite and this was proof positive. I mean, we may well end up being trash this season but given the circumstances I (genuinely) don't think our pre-season and the County game is a fair reflection of the squad in general.

It had a similar energy to Sked speaking to @thisGRAEME in one of the early season previews where he was incredulous at Graeme's suggestion we could finish top 6 with a fair headwind and things going our way (Narrator: Motherwell finished Top 6 that season).

I think the beef I had was that there was no real context given or considered (again, mostly from Fowler).

I get that they're Hearts and Killie fans respectively and we've been anything but convincing (although we're still technically unbeaten through pre-season into the opening fixture) but we've got half a dozen players out injured and another pile in various states of rehab coming back from injury which is why as many of the new signings were on the bench or in the case of Stuparević he didn't just disappear from the squad (as implied) - he's injured.

Also, the suggestion that the "takeover" stuff had distracted the football department was an odd take given the football department seems to have been the one area of the club that has been functioning as normal in terms of getting bodies in.

 

1 hour ago, MP_MFC said:

That's basically my take from listening to that and pretty much any output that either of the two Craig's have been involved in with Motherwell over the years, they think we're shite and by god, they'll let us know about it at any opportunity.

Jealousy is a wicked thing when you support teams who have been down to the Championship many more times than us since we took our place at the top table all those years ago.

I can't lie I usually would agree with these takes. I did think this one was closer to the bone though.

And the point @capt_oats makes about the distraction being a pile of shite was something I thought as well.

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